Making AI More Emotional – Part Two (Artie)
Artie, of Artie’s adventure fame, has taken a different approach to automated agents, using AR to give algorithms a friendly and familiar face. The company’s software allows users to create and share avatars based on celebrities, influencers, and popular fictional characters. These avatars are ‘emotionally aware, world-aware and object-aware through the use of computer vision and sentiment analysis,’ according to co-founder Armando Kirwin, and draw on a much wider range of natural communication than your average chatbot or digital assistant. ‘The average interaction with a digital assistant might be five seconds or less, but because interacting with an avatar is a much more natural experience, we’re able to increase the session time to around five minutes.’
Artificial personality
Giving a personality to an AI avatar is a novel way of getting around the problems that machine learning has in unpredictable situations. Establishing a narrative context for each interaction with a character or avatar allows users to interact with a being that has a defined personality, attitude, and way of speaking. ‘If you talk to an Iron Man avatar on social media, he’s not going to talk to you about politics, he’s going to talk to you about his world’ says co-founder Ryan Horrigan.
Cogito’s application trains AI to be more empathetic by detecting minute changes in tone of voice and speech patterns. Artie’s avatars use computer vision, natural language processing and sentiment analysis to replicate emotions in a virtual character and give AI a different way to interact with us.
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